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THOMAS CilAltES CO. 

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A Kindergarten Program 



A YEAR'S WORK 



BY 



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COPYRIGHT Ig04 

BY THOMAS CHARLES CO. 

CHICAGO. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Introduction 

1. Subjects 13 

II. Daily program 14 

III. Morning Circle program 14 

IV. "Before School" occupations 15 

V. "Before School" drawings 16 

VI. Hymns; prayer; other songs 17 

VII. Calendar; songs and verses 18-19 

VIII. Circle stories - - - 20-21 

IX. Songs and verses 22-23 

X, Dances, marches, exercises 24-25 

XI. Games 26 

XII. First gift period — First gift; second gift; beads; 

stories ; visits 27-29 

XIII. Second gift period — Folding .... 29 

XIV. Third gift period — Blocks 30 

XV. Fourth gift period — Tablets; sticks; rings; seeds 31-32 

XVI. Fifth gift period — Weaving; extras - - - - 33 

XVII. First occupation period — Cutting - - - - 34 

XVIII. Second occupation period — Painting, modeling, 

drawing 35-36 

XIX. Third occupation period — Pasting ... 37 

XX. Fourth occupation period — Sewing - - - - 38 

XXI. Fifth occupation period — Construction - - - 38-39 

XXII. Christmas gift period 40 

XXIII. Christmas occupations 40 

XXIV. Thanksgiving celebration 41 

XXV. Christmas party 41 

XXVI. Doll Party 42 

XXVII. Lincoln's Birthday 42 

XXVIII. Washington's Birthday 43 

XXIX. Froebel's Birthday 43 

XXX. Children's birthdays] 43 

XXXI. Excursions 44 

XXXII. Processions 44 

XXXIII. Emergency program 45 



INTRODUCTION. 



For those kindergartners who believe in the efficacy 
and value of Froebel's gifts and occupations, and whose 
minds are open to whatever of good Twentieth Century- 
progress may bring for those who are conservative enough 
to hold fast to the old which has proved itself, and 
liberal enough to welcome the new to trial and proof 
from whatever source it comes, this book is written. It 
is the result of twenty years' experimenting in ways, 
means, and programs. This program, as it stands, has 
stood the test of time. 

Believing in the utility of the new constructive work 
which has of late years become so popular in our kinder- 
gartens, believing also in the adaptation and readjustment 
of old German to newer American ideas, but holding to 
certain Froebelian schools of work because of their results, 
we have endeavored to construct a program into which 
all these elements shall enter in due proportion. 

The subjects chosen are those which, in the beginning, 
relate closely to the child's home life and limited experi- 
ences. They extend themselves later into the broader 
interests of trade and state life. As part of the latter we 
do not hesitate to use as subjects for expression the school 
life which lies so near at hand and the civic institutions 
of our own locality. The culmination of these broader 
interests we find in the work and play which centers round 
the stories of the knights of old, through which we picture 
an ideal state. 

A close relationship to the Universal Life, as revealed 
to us in nature, is kept in mind, heart, and practice 
throughout the year, but finds its complete expression 
during those weeks in which we follow the Spring into 
Summer, with its glorious awakening and triumphant 
progress. 

The daily program is, of course, arranged to meet our 



8 INTRODUCTION. 



local conditions. Our hours are from 8:40 o'clock to 11 -jq 
o clock, as the school doors open at the former hour, and 
the morning session of the primary grades closes at the 
latter ihe formal opening occurs at 9 o'clock, but the 
preceding twenty-minute period we regard as an oppor- 
tunity and so provide on our program for its utilization 
We are careful to avoid the common mistake of 
keeping our children too long on the Morning Circle, as 
well as the other one of holding them during that time in 
entire physical inactivity. This cannot be atoned for later 
by marching them about until they are tired out; neither 
are gestures made with hands and arms all-suffic ent 
Because of a free use of bodily expression in connecdon 
with songs and stones, and the introduction of certain 
n.t.T a"u 7™''°'"= &ames, which are best played when 
mind and body are at their freshest, our children are 
neither restless nor inattentive on the Morning Circle 

full ]^?f h."°' r^K^' 'u,^'"' ^^'?^ ='"'"& '" their chairs a 
full half hour, to be able to give attention to a long- 

early in the period or between opportunities for bodily 
movement When we talk with the children, we try to do 

nes to thl 1; h r^K P™«==.,^hich is too often a weari- 
mhI 1 Jlf'^ °^^'?'?,"' P"P''^ ^"d teachers, as well as 

utterly profitless. Children talk better and more freely on 
the more informal occasions than on the circle, as a ru°e! 
and so we make in this way the most we ckn of ou^ 

before-school " time, our walks and excursions. 
oerioH nf 1, ■"' °^ "'"^^ "^"'^ '= followed by a short 
wM^ fron, n '.'"i^' 1 ^''^'•?,""' "^^'^hes, or games; for 
while from 90 clock until 9:30 o'clock opportunity for 

allowed .^Tl'y ^r ^''" eiven, the children have been 
anH^?i K '^""^ advantage of it according to inclination, 
freer exerrTr'"' T^ '^^''^ T °^ '^e way. a fuller and 
readv.nH Mr""*^^-^Ty^^- ^his makes them quite 
whirh ^"^.."''"■"g to S't down to a half hour's table work, 
wh chfnll^ turn^ prepares them for the half hour of pla,; 

^nler thlnTh J^^ '^"Tt P?""^ "^ table work is a little 
longer than the first and the five or ten minutes occupied 
by the ceremonies of dismissal are made distinctly educa- 



INTRODUCTION. 9 

tional, though we are here, as elsewhere, careful not to 
overtax the children's patience. 
^ On our Morning Circle we begin with some song of 
greeting, chiefly because it seems more reasonable under 
the circumstances to say good morning first, and our 
prayers afterwards, than to reverse the process. Songs 
of the season follow, often with comment and attendant 
activity. For instance, after voicing in song the fact that 

Old Jack Frost lays his hand on the pond 
And turns it to glittering ice, 

we for a moment skate, slide, and frolic with much 
dramatic zest. This sort of thing is very good for the 
fidgets, the children are often much more ready to give 
their minds to what follows after it than if their bodies had 
not been so considered. Absolute obedience to signals 
is, of course, a necessary concomitant to these digressions. 

Daily attention is given to the calendar with accom- 
panying songs or verses. This is succeeded by whatever 
care is needed by pets or the flowers. When one or a 
few children are chosen for this, unless the process is one 
which holds the interest of the others we manage in some 
way to occupy their period of waiting. 

After this come the songs, talks, and stories, which 
the occassion calls for. 

As early in the year as is practicable, Friday becomes a 
"choosing day" and an unending joy, much more so than 
in those kindergartens where choice is not more or less 
conserved as a privilege. 

In the lists of songs, games, gifts, occupations, etc., 
the weeks are numbered from one to thirty-eight, so that 
the number of each item refers to the week of which work 
it is a part. There are five gift and five occupation 
periods each week, every one being a factor in a con- 
nected series of lessons. This connection is really the 
vital point of our work. It has been carefully planned, 
tried, and worked out, and was designed with especial 
thought for those young kindergartners who are so over- 
whelmed with the wealth of material and resource supplied 
them by their training-classes that the process of selection 
is almost too much for them. 

In too many of our kindergartens a multitude of things 



10 INTRODUCTION. 

are begun and never finished. Schools of work are under- 
taken, only to straggle along to no particular end. Sticks, 
rings, and tablets are giv^en to the children, but not in 
relation to the previous or the next lesson; and all this in 
spite of the teacher's training, and her belief that 
Froebel's educational idea is obscured if his gifts and 
occupations are not presented in orderly sequence. 

Our program provides for a short series of lessons 
with the Hailman beads; for a few — a very few — expe- 
riences with the first and second gifts (for remember our 
children are with us only while from five to six years of 
age); for a connected series of lessons in blocks, tablets, 
sticks, rings, seeds, folding, cutting, pasting, weaving, and 
sewing. One period a week is given to constructive work, 
and one to painting, drawing or modeling, and provision 
is made for certain extras, as berry-stringing, pricking, etc. 

Folding and weaving are relegated to the gift period 
because of the amount of dictation and corresponding 
attention required for good work in these particular lines. 

The results, in our schools, of a conscientious following 
of this program have been good enough to justify us in the 
conclusion that, while far from perfect or complete, they 
have much to do with the self-control, concentration, and 
industry which our kindergarten children show in their 
later school work. 

During all lessons where dictation is given, and where 
concentrated attention is necessary, no talking should be 
permitted. With such occupations as modeling, free-hand 
cutting, or certain plays with the blocks, an interchange 
of ideas is aflowable, but, as a rule, the children should be 
taught to conform to the good, old adage of "Work while 
you work, and play while you play " They readily form 
the habit of giving all instead of a divided attention to the 
work in hand, and, because of this, develop a skill and a 
pleasure in the exercise of it which is beyond anything 
attained by any other method. We feel that the exchange 
of all this for the so-called freedom of the usual desultory 
and capricious chat is greatly to our advantage, for at 
such times as perfect spontaneity is in order we find that 
the children's minds seem more than ever alert, and fuller 
than ever before of thoughts and imaginings created by 
their work. 



INTRODUCTION. ii 

With these necessary explanations the lists and 
arrangements of which the program is composed are pre- 
sented as suggestions, with the idea that every true 
kindergartner will vary them when necessary with varying 
conditions. If this caution is observed the author will 
have reason to hope that her efforts may prove truly 
helpful to her fellow workers. 



I 



September. 

1st week. 
2d week. 
3d week. 

October. 

4th week, 
5th week. 
6th week. 
7th week. 

November. 

8th week. 

9th week. 
lOth week, 
nth week. 

December. 

I2th week. 
13th week. 
14th week. 
15th week. 

January. 

i6th week. 
17th week. 
i8th week. 
19th week. 

February. 

20th week. 
2ist week. 
22d week. 
23d week. 

March. 

24th week. 
25th week. 



SUBJECTS. 

The family. 
The home. 
Home work. 

Baking. 

Outdoor life; Autumn. 

Animal life. 

The Brownies; Hallowe'en, 

Horses and cows. 

The barnyard. 

The farmer. 

The harvest; Thanksgiving. 

Christmas. 
Christmas. 
Christmas. 
Christmas. 

The holidays; Winter, 
The woodman. 
The carpenter. 
The weaver. 

The shoemaker. 
The blacksmith. 
Lincoln. Valentines. 
Washington. 

The miner. 
The town. 

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26th week. 


The fire department 


27th week. 


School life. 


April. 




28th week. 


The knights. 


29th week. 


The knights. 


30th week. 


Wind and rain. 


31st week. 


Birds and sunshine. 


May. 




32d week. 


Trees. 


33d week. 


Flowers. 


34th week. 


Fish and frogs. 


35th week. 


Bees and butterflies. 


June. 




36th week. 


Summer. 


37th week. 


Summer. 


38th week. 


Summer. 



II. 

DAILY PROGRAM. 



8:40 to 9:00 
drawing. 

9:00 to 9:30 

9:30 to 9:45 

9:45 to 10:15 

10:15 to 10:40 

10:40 to 11:20 

11:20 to 11:30 



"Before School" occupations and 

Morning Circle. 

Marching; Dancing; Exercises. 

Gift period. 

Games. 

Occupation period. 

Dismissal. 



III. 

MORNING CIRCLE PROGRAM. 

Good Morning Song. 
Hymn. 
Prayer. 

Songs of the Season. 
The Calendar; songs and verses. 
Care of pets, flowers, etc. 
Songs, talks, stories. 
(Friday after November ist to be "Choosing Day.") 



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IV. 
"BEFORE SCHOOL" OCCUPATIONS. 

1st week. Milkweed Babies. 

2d week. Wet sand; blocks; nests. 

3d week. Dry sand; Do real housework in and 
about the room. 

4th week. Sand pies; thresh wheat; grind; bake. 

5th week. Autumn treasures of all kinds. 

6th week. Dens and caves in sand; toy and live 
animals. 

7th week. Brownie toys and books. 

8th week. Make sand-box into a pasture. 

9th week. Make sand-box into a barnyard. 

lOth week. Dig potatoes in sand; use beads or 
berries. 

nth week. Illustrate "Over the River" in sand. 

I2th week. Decorate room with evergreens. 

13th week. Chains. 

14th week. Paper lanterns. 

15th week. Make a Christmas house. 

i6th week. Bring toys from home. 

17th week. Make a forest in the sand-box; use 
Christmas tree. 

i8th week. Free play with blocks; do carpenter 
work; mend chairs. 

19th week. Exhibit of spinning-wheels; raffia and 
other weaving. 

20th week. Exhibit of tools, leather, curios, shoes. 

2ist week. Improvise anvil chorus, using horseshoes 
and nails. 

22d week. Free making of valentines with odds and 
end-s of material. 

23d week. Make a camp in the sand. 

24th week. Make mountains and mines. 

25th week. Play telephone. 

26th week. Play fire department. 

27th week. Readers; charts; curiosities borrowed 
from schoolrooms. 

28th week. Read to children. 

29th week. Play knights; free use of trappings. 

30th week. Make lake shore in sand. 



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31st week. Experiment with looking-glass and prism 

32d week. Spring treasures. 

33d week to 38th week. Garden work out of doors. 

I. The Christmas house is made of a pasteboard 
box. Doors and windows are cut and covered from the 
mside with red tissue paper There is a chimney, of 
course The house stands on a sheet of glass, and is 
more or less covered with cotton-wool, which represents 
snow. When finished, the room is darkened and a candle 
placed mside the Christmas house. This is a Swedish 
Christmas custom. 

2. The blackboard and pictures in books or on 
mountmg cards are to be used every day. A special 
pomt should be made, during this period, of natural 
objects relatmg to the subject or the season, and also in 
regard to anythmg the children may bring from home. 

V. 
"BEFORE SCHOOL" DRAWING. 

1st week. Balls; milkweed babies; other babies. 
Homes, human or animal. 
Clothes on the line. 
Kitchen furnishings. 
Leaves 

Cats; mice; wild animals in cages. 
Brownies. 
Barn; wagons. 

Gate; coops; fence; chickens. 
Farm implements; cdrnfield; pumpkins. 
Vegetables; fruits. 
Moon; sun; stars; moon phases. 
Pine trees; sprays of pine. 
Fireplace. 

Stockings; Christmas tree; toys. 
Snow pictures. 
Bare trees. 
Houses, furniture. 
Designs for carpets, etc. 
Shoes. 

Wagons; other vehicles. 
Valentines. 



^d week. 

3d week. 

4th week. 

5th week. 

6th week. 

7th week. 

8th week. 

9th week. 
lOth week, 
nth week. 
I2th week. 
13th week. 
14th week. 
15th week. 
i6th week. 
17th week. 
i8th week. 
19th week. 
20th week. 
2ist week. 
22d week. 



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23d week. Tents; cannon; flags; camp. 

24th week. Mountains. 

25th week. Telegraph line. 

26th week. House on fire; fire department. 

27th week. Letters; figures; write names and words. 

28th week. Castle. 

29th week. Illustrate stories. 

30th week. Rain picture. 

31st week. Garden tools; flower-pots; greenhouse. 

32d week. Trees; leaves; sprays. 

33d week. Flowers. 

34th week. Water; lighthouse; boats. 

35th week. Free drawing. No dictation or sugges- 
tion. 

36th week. Free drawing. 

37th week. Free drawing. 

38th week. Free drawing. 

Invite older children in to draw with the little ones. 

VI. 
HYMNS AND PRAYER. OTHER SONGS. 

To November ist. God Is Always Near Me. Smith, 
Part 2, page 3. 

To December ist. Thanksgiving Song. Smith, Part 
2, page 22. 

To January ist. Christmas Hymn. Smith, Part i, 
page 31. 

To March 1st. America. 

To May ist. God Sends His Bright Spring Sun. 
Smith, Part I, page i. 

To June 15th. Morning Prayer. Smith, Part i, 
page 2. 

PRAYER. 

Father, we thank Thee for the night, 
And for the pleasant morning light, 
For rest and food and loving care, 
For all that makes the day so fair. 
Help us to do the things we should, 
To be to others kind and good, 
In all we do in work or play. 
To grow more loving every day. 



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SONGS OF THE SEASON. 

"Greeting to the Sun." - - Gaynor, page 6o 

"Rain, Rain, do not go." - Eleanor Smith Primer 
Review. 

"Jacky Frost." - - - Eleanor Smith Primer 

"Come, Little Leaves." - Smith, Part 2, page 21 

"Little White Feathers." - Smith, Part i, page 27 

"Wake, said the Sunshine." Smith, Part I, page 16 

"Rain Song." - - - Smith, Part I, page 88 

" Happy Summer." - - Smith, Part i, page 18 

^'Baby and the Moon." - Smith, Part i, page 98 

"The Moon Boat." - - Gaynor, page 61 
"The New Year." - Walker and Jenks, page 55 



WHILE WATERING FLOWERS. 

"Careful Gardener." - - Walker and Jenks, page 9 

Good morning and good-by songs to be chosen by 
the teacher at discretion. Part of " Home, Sweet Home," 
to be sung during the closing exercises. 

SONG BOOKS. 

1. "Songs for Little. Children," parts i and 2. — 
Eleanor Smith. 

2. "Songs of the Child World." — Gaynor, 

3. "Songs and Games for Little Ones." — Walker 
and Jenks. 

4. "Children's Songs." — Reinecke. 

5. "Songs and Music of Friedrich Froebel's Mother 
Play."— Blow. 

6. "Eleanor Smith Primer." 

VII. 
CALENDARS. 

Month Picture of Paste on 

September. "Children." - Red parquetry. 
October. "The Woods." Red, yellow, and brown par- 
quetry. 



KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM. 



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"A Farm." Orange parquetry. 

"Christmas." Black parquetry, with gold 
star in center. 

"Winter." White parquetry. 

"Washington." Red, White, and Blue par- 
quetry.^ 

"Spring." Green parquetry. 

"Birds." Purple crocuses, made of 

parquetry. 

"Flowers." Other flowers, made of par- 
quetry. 

"Summer." All colors. 



November. 
December. 

January. 
February. 

March. 
April. 

May. 

June. 

In place of parquetry, use, if preferred: 
September. Sunbonnet babies. 
October. Leaves, red and yellow. 
November. Vegetables and fruits. 
December. Stars. 
January. Snowballs. 
February. Flags. 
March. Leaves, green. 
April. Birds. 
May. Flowers. 
June. Butterflies. 

Paste the picture on the upper end of a piece of gray 
cardboard. Square off spaces underneath in imitation of 
the ordinary calendar. In these spaces paste either the 
parquetry or a tiny picture for each day. In connection 
with this exercise sing songs suggested by the pictures, 
either those which are part of the program or others 
specially chosen. The old song beginning "I've come to 
see Miss Jenny O'Jones," is very useful in this connection, 
and lends itself delightfully to dramatic representation 
either with or without accessories in the shape of real 
implements or the children's toys. A similar song is sung 
to the old tune of "Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grows," 
and runs as follows: 

I went to see my friend one day, 
She lived just over across the way. 
She said she couldn t come out to play 
Because it was her washing-day. 
This is the way she worked away, etc. 



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This song runs through the week's occupations, and 
is a great favorite with our children. I think it is pub- 
lished in one of the many kindergarten song-books to be 
found at the supply stores, but it does not appear in any 
of those we use. 

In connection with the calendar, let the children 
learn, little by little. 

1. The days of the week. 

2. The months of the year. 

3. The old verse, beginning, "Thirty Days hath 
September." 

4. To make figures. 

5. To write letters and words. 



VIII. 
CIRCLE STORIES. 

1st week. The Potato Baby. (Kindergarten 

Stories and Rhymes.) 
2d week. The Little Sugar House. (Roger 

and Rose.) - - Katherine Beebe 

The Three Bears. . - _ Grimm 

3d week. Charlotte and the Ten Dwarfs. 

(Kindergarten Stories and 

Rhyme.) 
4th week. Snow White, - - _ - Grimm 
5th week. The Crane Express. (In the Child's 

World.) - - . - Poulsson 

6th week. The Pied Piper, . - - Browning 

Dicky Smi ley's Birthday. (The 

Story Hour.) - - K. D. Wiggin 

7th week. The Elves and the Shoemaker. Grimm 

8th week. Hans in luck. - . . Grimm 

9th week. The Goats in the Turnip Field. 

(Bound Volume of Babyland.) 
loth week. The Little Red Hen. - - - Grimm 

nth week. The First Thanksgiving. (The 

Story Hour.) - - - K. D. Wiggin 
I2th week. The First Christmas. - - Bible 

Piccola. (In the Child's World.) Poulsson 
Pine-tree Stories. 



KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM. 



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13th week. 

14th week. 
15th week. 

i6th week. 
17th week. 

i8th week. 

19th week. 
20th week. 



2ist week. 
22d week. 



23d week. 



24th week. 
25th week. 
26th week. 

27th week. 
28th week. 



29th week. 
30th week. 

31st week. 
32d week. 
33d week. 
34th week. 

35th week. 

36th week. 
37th week. 
38th week. 



Christmas in the Barn. (In the 

Child's World.) - - - Poulsson 
Mrs. Santa Claus. . - - Anon 

The Legend of the Christchild. 

Elizabeth Harrison 
Esquimaux Stories. 
The Honest Woodman. (In the 

Child's World.) - - - - Poulsson 

An Old-fashioned Rhyme. (In the 

Child's World.) - - - Poulsson 
Arachne. (Nature Myths and Stories.) Cook 
The Elves and the Shoemaker. - Grimm 
The Twelve Princesses Who Danced 

Their Shoes to Pieces. - - Grimm 

Pegasus. (The Chimera.) - Hawthorne 

Story of Lincoln. 
Story of St. Valentine. 
Philip's Valentines. (In the Child's 

World.) Poulsson 

Story of George Washington. (The 

Story Hour. - - - Wiggin. 

Hero Stories. 



Story of the Chicago Fire. (Roger 
& Rose). 



Beebe 



Stories of Knights. How Cedric 
Became a Knight. (In Story 
Land. . . - - Harrison 

Stories of Kings and Queens. - Grimm 
Story of the Weather-vane. (From 

A Study of Child Nature.) - Harrison 

Sleeping Beauty. ... Grimm 

Rhoecus. - . - - Lowell 

Nature Stories. 

The Frog Prince. . - - Grimm 

Hiawatha's Fishing. - - Longfellow 
Stories from "Among the Meadow 
People." 



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1st week. 



2d week. 



3d week. 
4th week. 
5th week. 



6th week. 



Snow White. 
Making Bread. 
Where do All 



IX. 

SONGS AND VERSES. 
All For Baby. 

Miss Poulsson's Finger Plays, page 37 
The Stork. - - Reinecke, page 28 

Milkweed Babies. Smith, Part 2, page 107 
Selected Finger Plays. 
My Pigeon House. 

Walker and Jenks, page 86 
Reinecke, page 55 
Finger Plays, page 69 
the Birdies go? 

Walker and Jenks, page 47 
How Johnny and Polly Shake the Apples 

Reinecke, page 32 

I Love Little Pussy. Smith, Part i, page 92 
Soft and Hard Balls. Smith, Part 2, page 67 
The Little Mice. Walker and Jenks, page 87 
7th week. Brownie Song.* - - Gaynor, page 102 
8th week. Butter Song. - Finger Plays, page 73 

The Barnyard. - Smith, Part 2, page 100 
Thanksgiving Songf 

\Valker and Jenks, page 46 
How the Corn grew. Finger Plays, page 61 
Review. 

Happy Bells. Walker and Jenks, page 63 

The First Christmas. 

Walker and Jenks, page 61 
The Wonderful Tree. 

Walker and Jenks, page 67 
Up on the Housetop. - . - Anon 

Brownies are We. _ _ . Anon 

The Night Before Christmas. C. C. Moore 
Selected Sleighing Song. 
The Woodman. - Smith, Part 2, page 12 
The Carpenter. - - Blow, page 236 

ood Brownie Song can be adapted from "The Dance 
which is to be had in the sheet music of "The 



9th week. 

lOth week, 
nth week. 
£2th week. 



13th week. 



14th week. 
15th week. 
i6th week. 
17th week. 
i8th week. 

* A very 
of the Piccaninnies, 
Runaway Girl." 

t A better tune than this one has been brought into our kinder 
garten by one of the Volunteers, who learned it in her training class. 

We use the same words, however, omitting one verse. 



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19th week. The Lambs, - Finger Plays, page 14 

20th week. The Little Shoemaker, - Gaynor, page 17 
2 1st week. The Blacksmith, - - Gaynor, page 16 
22d week. Flag Song, - - Smith, Part 2, page 112 
23d week. Johnny Schmoker, - - Sheet Music 
24th week. The Song of Iron, - Gaynor, page 14 

25th week. Review. 
26th week. The Fireman's Song, - - Sheet Music 

Scotland's a-burning, - Old Part Song 
27th week. Review. 
28th week. The Knights and the Good Child, 

Blow, page 250 

29th week. The Knights and the Bad Child, 

Blow, page 252 

The Knights and the Mother, J 

Blow, page 255 

30th week. The Windmill, - - Gaynor, page 55 
31st week. The Bird's Nest, - - Gaynor, page 10 
32d week. The Tree's Friends, - Gaynor, page 73 
33d week. The Dandelion, - - Gaynor, page 78 
34th week. The Froggies' Swimming School, 

Gaynor, page 104 

35th week. The Song of the Bee, 

- Walker and Jenks, page 40 

Butterfly Song, - - Blow, page 182 
36th week. Review. 
37th week. Review. 
38th week. Free Choice. 



X We make a change in this song, singing it as follows: 

I hear the bugle sounding 

So merry and so clear! 
The Knights come gayly riding, 

They want my child so dear, 

Now my child is happy, 

Gentle, good and true, 
So he shall go a-riding, 

A-riding with you. 

Jingle, jingle, jingle! 

Over hill and dell! 
But bring him back at evening 

Because I love him well! 



24 KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM. 

X. 

DANCES, MARCHES, EXERCISES, 

DANCES. 

1. Old Shaker Dance.— I put my right hand in, etc / 

2. Skipping Dance. ^ 

3. Two hand dance. — Galop step. 

4. Heel, toe, and a one, two, three. 

5. Skip, skip, and a run, run, run. 

6. Simple Quadrille. 

;. To and Fro. From Smith, Part 2, page 45. 

8. I've come to choose you from the rest. Gavnor 
page loi. -^ ' 

9. Bridge Dance.* 
10. The Two Step. 

SIMPLE QUADRILLE. 
I. Form children into four equal lines. Let the lines 
face each other, as the couples do in quadrilles. 

1. First line forward and back. 

2. Second line forward and back. 

3. Third line forward and b'ack. 

4. Fourth line forward and back. 

1. First line circle around. 

2. Second line circle around, 

3. Third line circle around. 
4- Fourth line circle around. 

1. First and second lines forward and back. 

2. Third and fourth lines forward and back. 

1. First and second forward, join hands, circle 
around. 

2. Third and fourth forward, join hands, circle 
around. 

I' -^^1 lines forward, back, join hands, circle around. 

Vir i^a*Ree? ^"^^^ ^^"^^ ^°"" ^^^ children in two lines as for the 
First two skip down between lines and back twice, counter- 
march, form bridge with hands for others to pass under The 
coSple'tTke^'a t""^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^"""^ ""^ skipping if desired. Let each 



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KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM. 25 

MARCHES. 

1. March holding hands. 

2. Wind and unwind as in Snail game. 

3. Single file. Learn halt and right about face. 

4. March with hands and arms in different positions. 

5. March one by one, two by two, twos play "Ring 
around a rosy." 

6. One by one, two by two, four by four. 

7. One by one, two by two, up the middle, divide, 
skip to places on circle. 

8. Same with running, dancing and hopping in place 
of the skip. 

9. One by one; two by two; four by four. Fours 
march around like spokes of a wheel, the inside child on 
each line holding fast to the teacher, who stands in the 
middle. Halt, lines form rings and circle round. Halt; 
form wheel agam. March four by four; two by two; one 
by one. 

10. Military Drill; military marching; company 
shooting at target. Cavalry drill; horses pawing, walking, 
trotting, galloping. Cavalrymen, forward 1 charge! fire! 
Gallop back 

11. A rhythmic march. March as soldiers, storks, 
birds, cats, chickens, ducks, horses. Brownies, etc. 

12. March out of doors with flags, having horn or 
bugle with which to give signals, and a drum with which 
to mark time. 

EXERCISES. 

1. Move heads forward, back, right, left, round and ^ 
round. 

2. Move shoulders up and down, forward and back. ^ 

3. Move arms. Play see-saw; do school gymnastics. . 

4. Bend and twist from waist. 

5. Kneel first on one knee, then on the other. 

6. Stoop and spring up; play Jack-in-the-box. 

7. Lie down; fold arms; sit up. 

8. Touch floor without bending knees. ^ 

9. Lie down; fold arms; lift heads. 

10. Dance up and down on toes; run on toes. ^ 

11. Sit down; cross feet; get up without touching 
knees to floor. 



26 KINDERGARTEN P^^OGRAM. 

12. Jump on toes. 

13. Arms out; exercise wrists. 

14. Bend forward, back, right, left. 
15 .Sway forward, back, right, left. 
16. Feather movements. 

Note. — The numbers in this chapter do not refer to the school 
weeks as in the others. They are used here simply as a matter of 
convenience. 

XI. 

GAMES. 

September. 

Ball games, catching, bounding, rolling, hiding, etc. 

Beanbags. 

A clock game. Gaynor, page 60. 
October. 

Ninepins. 

A squirrel game. 

My Pigeon House. Walker and Jenks, page 86. 

The Muffin Man. 

November. 

Skip tag. 

Drop the handkerchief. 

The Farmer. From the old Hubbard Song Book. 

Thanksgiving song. Gaynor, page 67. 
December. 

Going to Jerusalem. 

Races. 

Santa Claus' Reindeer. 
January. 

London Bridge 

Basket Ball. 

Hiding games. 

The Woodman. 

Little travelers. 

Did you ever see a Lassie? Smith, Part 2, page 46. 

A weaving game. 
February. 

Driving horses. 

Stoop tag. 



KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM. 27 

Fox and geese. 

Soldiers' Drill, with real bugle-calls on piano. 

March. 

Puss in the corner. 

Ruth and Jacob. 

The Miner. 

Firemen. 

School. 

A Japanese school. 

April. 

Knight's tournaments. Tests of strength and skill. 

Blindfolded child hunts for music-box played by 
some one. 

Dramatize the three songs of the Knights. 

Sense games. 

Jumping rope. 
May. 

Ring around the posy bed (abbreviate). Smith, 
Part I, page 74. 

Still pond, no moving. 

Outdoor play. 
June. 

Outdoor play. 

Free choice. 

XIL 
FIRST GIFT PERIOD. 

FIRST GIFT.— SECOND GIFT. — BEADS. — STORIES. — VISITS. 

1st week. Free use of Kallmann Beads. 

2d week. First Gift.— Color lesson; guessing game; 

free play. 

3d week. First Gift.— Color lesson; guessing game; 
dramatize songs. 

4th week. Second Gift.— Make group work-shop; 
play a rolling game. 

5th week. Story of Mother Nature's Children, Jane 
Andrews. 

6th week. Story of the Three Pigs, Nursery Tale. 

7th week. Story of the Elves and the Shoemaker, 
Grimm. 



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8th week. Story of the Bell of Atri, Longfellow. 
9th week. Story of the Ugly Duckling, Andersen, 
loth week. Make chicken yard of peg-board and 
sticks. Use beads for chickens, 
nth week. 

Christmas work. 
Christmas work. 
Christmas work. 
Christmas work. 

Beads; dictated color lesson. ^ 

Beads; dictated form lesson. 
Beads; dictated number lesson. 
Beads; dictated lesson in number and 



I2th week. 

13th week. 

14th week. 

15th week. 

i6th week. 

17th week. 
i8th week 
19th week 
color. 

20th week 
2ist week 



Beads; dictated lesson in form and color. 
Beads; color lesson from directions on 
blackboard. Children to be left to do the work alone. 
22d week. Holiday 

Story of Paul Revere. Longfellow. 

Story of The Golden Touch. Hawthorne. 

Beads; form lesson, children left alone. 

Visit fire department. 

Beads; colors in prismatic order . 

Story of Prince Harweda. Elizabeth 



23d week. 

24th week. 

25th week. 

26th week.- 

27th week. 

28th week. 
Harrison 

29th week. Castle with pegboards, sticks, and beads. 
Several children to work on one structure. 

30th week. Second Gift — spinning of cubes, balls. 



Read to children. 



and cylinders 

31st week 
Harrison. 

32d week 

33d week 
alone 

34th week 
dramatize stories. 

35th week. Read to children, 
dramatize stories. 

36th week Read to children, 
dramatize stories. 

37th week. Read to children, 
dramatize stories. 



Story of the Line of Light. Elizabeth 

Pegs and pegboards. Children left alone. 
Beads; number lesson. Children left 



Let them choose and 
Let them choose and 
Let them choose and 
Let them choose and 



KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM, 



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38th week. Read to children. Let them choose and 
dramatize stories. 

XIII. 

SECOND GIFT PERIOD.— FOLDING.— PAPER 5x5. 

1st week. Make little book. 
2d week. Lesson in circular folding. 
3d week. Lesson in circular folding. 
4th week. Fold opposite edges to a middle line; 
make into a pantry. 

5th week. Fold opposite corners together; change 



to chicken coop. 
6th week. 
7th week, 
the squares. 

8th week. 

9th week. 

lOth week. 

picture. 

nth week. 
I2th week. 
13th week. 
14th week. 
15th week. 
i6th week. 



Lesson in circular folding. 

Fold first fundamental; open; cut out 

Lesson in circular folding. 

First fundamental; cup and saucer. 

First fundamental; frame for a barnyard 



Lesson in circular folding. 

Christmas work. 

Christmas work. 

Christmas work. 

Christmas work. 

Make a doll's scrap-book. 
17th week. Fold square into strips 5x5^ inches. 
iSth week. First fundamental; open; cut; make tool- 



chest. 

19th week. 

20th week. 

2ist week, 
folding. 

22d week. 
Lincoln. 

23d week, 
ington. 

24th week. 

25th week. 



from second fundamental. 

26th week. Make piece 
fundamental. 



Fold second fundamental. 

Make purse from first fundamental. 

Make bellows from piece of circular 

Badge from second fundamental. 
Badge from second fundamental. Wash- 
Fold a miner's cap. 
Group work mosaic from beauty form 



of furniture from first 



30 KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM. 

27th week. Make lunch basket from first or second. 

28th week. Fold king's crown. Second. 

29th week. Fold queen's crown. Second. 

30th week. Fold boat from first or second. 

31st week. Fold third fundamental. 

32d week. Fold third fundamental. 

33d week. Fold chicken from third. 

34th week. Fold duck from third. 

35th week. Mosaic from third. 

36th week. Invent from first. 

37th week. Invent from second. 

38th week. Invent from third. 



XIV. 

THIRD GIFT PERIOD— BLOCKS. 

1st week. Free play with third gift. Learn to take 
out of and put in boxes. 

2d week. Simple sequence in third gift. Story 
of the Three Bears. Free play. 

3d week. Simple sequence in third gift. Home 
Work. Free play. 

4th week. Simple sequence in fourth gift. Baking. 
Free play. 

5th week. Simple sequence in fourth gift. Outdoor 
life. Free play. 

6th week. Illustrate story of Three Pigs with cubes 
and half cubes, making up 2x2x2 cube from the fifth 

7th week. Build Brownie houses, making large 
cube of whole and quarter cubes from fifth gift. 

8th week. Illustrate story, building a tower with 
the fifth gift. Build on floor. 

9th week. Make farm buildings with fifth gift. 
lOth week. Make farm enclosures with sixth gift, 
nth week. Table and chairs, using third and fourth 
gifts. 

I2th week. Christmas work. 
13th week. Christmas work. 
14th week. Christmas work. 
15th week. Christmas work. 



KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM. 31 

l6th week. Doll furniture from sixth gift. 

17th week. Build house with fifth, using every 

block. Children work alone. 

i8th week. Make village with fifth gift. 

19th week. Sequence with fourth gift. 

20th week. Interior of shoe store with sixth gift. 

2ist week. Interior of stable with sixth gift. 

22d week. Flatboat with fifth gift. From Story 
of Lincoln. 

23d week. Washington Monument with fifth gift. 
Build on floor. 

24th week. • Build house with fifth gift. Children 
work alone. 

25th week. Build house with fifth and sixth gifts. 

26th week. Firemen's bed-room with sixth gift. 

27th week. Schoolroom with sixth gift. Group work. 

28th week. Castle with third, fourth, fifth and sixth 

gifts. Build on floor. 

29th week. Sequence in beauty forms with third 



gift 
gift 
gift. 



30th week. Sequence in beauty forms with third 
31st week. Sequence in beauty forms with fourth 



32d week. Sequence in beauty forms with fourth 
gift. 

33d week. Sequence in beauty forms with fourth 



gift. 

gift, 
gift. 



34th week. Dictated beauty forms with fifth gift. 

35th week. Dictated beauty forms with fifth gift. 

36th week. Dictated beauty forms with sixth gift. 

37th week. Group work beauty forms with fifth 

38th week. Group work beauty forms with sixth 



XV. 
FOURTH GIFT PERIOD. 

TABLETS — STICKS — RINGS — SEEDS. 

1st week. Sticks of different lengths. Illustrate 
family. 



32 KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM. 

2d week. Make sidewalks with tablets (squares). 

3d week. Make a washboard with five and three- 
inch sticks. 

4th week. Make kitchen furnishings with square 
tablets and sticks. 

5th week. Lay square with seeds; lentils preferred. 

6th week. Make wild animals' cage with sticks. 
Lessons in oblongs. 

7th week. Make Brownies with rings, sticks, and 
seeds. 

8th week. Make a barn with tablets, using squares 
and right isosceles triangles. 

9th week. Lay corncrib with sticks. Lesson on the 
pentagon. 

loth week. Whole rings in three sizes; make fruits. 

nth week. Beauty forms with whole rings. Three 
sizes. 

I2th week. Christmas work. 

13th week. Christmas work. 

14th week. Christmas work. 

15th week. Christmas work. 

i6th week. Beauty forms in whole and half rings. 
One size. 

17th week. Sticks. Make what you can with two 
sticks; with three; four. 

i8th week. Lay house with sticks. Lesson on 
pentagon. 

19th week. Beauty forms with whole and half rings. 
Two sizes. 

20th week. Lay shoe trapezoids with sticks; review 
forms. 

2ist week. Sequence in beauty forms with square 
tablets. 

22d week. Sequence in beauty forms with square 
and triangular tablets. 

23d week. Sequence in beauty forms with right 
isosceles triangles. 

24th week. Miners' implements with sticks, rings, 
and tablets. 

25th week. Lay boat trapezoids with sticks; review 
forms. 

26th week. Lay ladders with sticks for Firemen. 



KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM. 



33 



27th week. 

28th week. 

29th week. 
Three sizes. 

30th week. 

31st week. 

32d week. 

33d week. 
Wholes, halves, 

34th week. 

35th week. 

36th week. 

37th week. 

38th week. 



Lay letters with sticks. Play school. 
Castle with tablets. Group work. 
Beauty forms in half and whole rings. 

Beauty forms in quarter and whole rings. 
Beauty forms in equilateral triangles. 
Beauty forms in right scalene triangles 
Flowers, leaves, and buds, with rings, 
and quarters. 

Beauty forms in obtuse isosceles triangles. 
Lay hexagons with sticks. 
Lay octagons with sticks. 
Invent with tablets. 
Invent with sticks. 



XVI. 
FIFTH GIFT PERIOD— WEAVING— EXTRAS. 



1st week 
2d week, 
3d week, 
4th week, 
5th week, 
procession of c 
and singing au 
6th week 
7th week. 
8th week. 
9th week. 

lOth week. 

nth week. 

I2th week. 

13th week. 

14th week. 

15th week. 

i6th week. 

17th week. 

i8th week. 

19th week. 

20th week. 

2ist week. 



Chain of straws and parquetry. 

Chain of berries. 
, Paste pyramid of apples. Red parquetry. 
. Paste pan of cookies. Yellow parquetry. 
, ^ Make wreaths of autumn leaves; have 
hildren wearing wreaths, carrying branches 
tumn songs. 

Paste a bird-house. 

Prick a Brownie. 

Weave. 

Weave. 

Weave. 

Prick a turkey or pumpkin. 

Christmas work. 

Christmas work. 

Christmas work. 

Christmas work. 

Weave. 

Weave. 

Weave. 

Weave. 

Weave. 

Weave. 



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KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM. 



22d week. 


Weave. 


23d week. 


Paste monument in white square par 


quetry. 




24th week. 


Paste coal cars in black square parquetry 


25th week. 


Weave. 


26th week. 


Weave. 


27th week. 


Visit school. 


28th week. 


Weave. 


29th week. 


Weave. 


30th week. 


Weave or go out doors. 


31st week. 


Weave or go out doors. 


32d week. 


Weave or go out doors. 


33d week. 


Weave or go out doors. 


34th week. 


Weave or go out doors. 


35th week. 


Weave or go out doors. 


36th week. 


Weave or go out doors. 


37th week. 


Weave or go out doors. 


38th week. 


Weave or go out doors 



XVII. 
FIRST OCCUPATION PERIOD— CUTTING 



1st week. 

2d week, 
trousers," etc. 

3d week, 
to hang on it. 

4th week. 



Free cutting; learn to use scissors. 

Cut out "sticks of candy," "pairs of 

Put up clothes-line and cut out clothes 



Cut from Hardware Catalog and paste 
good cuttings in a pantry folded from a large piece of 
Manila or wrapping-paper. This is fastened on the wall. 
5th week. Cut out pictures with even edges for 



scrap-books. 

6th week, 
board patterns. 

7th week. 

8th week. 

9th week, 
patterns. 

loth week. Cut out vegetables from flower catalogs; 
paste in a storehouse or barn fastened on the wall, 
nth week. Cut out pictures. 



Trace and cut out animals from card- 
Make a Brownie lantern of wall-paper. 
Cut out pictures; require good work. 
Cut out farm animals traced from 



KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM. 35 

I2th week. Christmas work. 

13th week. Christmas work. 

14th week. Christmas work. 

15th week. Christmas work. 

i6th week. Cut out paper dolls. 

17th week. Cut strips for chains. 

i8th week. Cut out houses free-hand; mount on 
chart. 

19th week. Make paper mat and strips; weave with 
fingers. 

20th week. Cut out shoes from catalogs and adver- 
tisements; Paste on show-window fastened to the wall. 

2ist week. Cut out and paste a wagon from a copy. 

22d week. Make valentines. 

23d week. Cut and paste flags. See dictionary. 

24th week. Cut out watches and other metalic objects 
from catalogs; paste in show-window. 

25th week. Cut miscellaneous objects; country store 
window. 

26th week. Cut out horses from pictures; mount in 
perspective. 

27th week. Cut out children from pictures; make 
school poster. 

^ 28th week. Cut designs from trial paper. 

29th week. Cut designs from gold paper; mount. 

30th week. Make boat poster. 

31st week. Cut and mount bird design. 

32d week. Cut and mount leaf design. 

33d week. Cut and mount flower design. 

34th week. Cut and mount turtle design. 

35th week. Cut and mount butterfly design. 

36th week. Free-hand cutting. 

37th week. Free-hand cutting. 

38th week. Free-hand cutting. 

XVIII. 
SECOND OCCUPATION PERIOD— PAINTING- 
MODELING— DRAWING. 

1st week. Clay. Make balls of three sizes; change. 
Free play. 

2d week. Clay. Balls of three sizes; cut in half; 



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KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM. 



make bowls of the Three Bears. Free play with unused 
halves. 

3d week. Paint slate with water to learn how to 
use brush. 

4th week. Make large clay ball; cut into discs. 
Free play. 

5th week. Impression of leaf in clay. 
6th week. Make bird in clay; use five balls, one 
large one for body, a small one for head, and three 
middle-sized ones flattened for wings and tail. Suggest 
nest, eggs, and food for free-play period. 
7th week. Paint outlined pumpkin. 
8th week. Paint outlined hen or chicken. 
9th week. Make clay bird, nest, and eggs. 
lOth week. Make clay vegetable. 
Paint vegetable. 
Christmas work. 
Christmas work. 
Christmas work. 
Christmas work. 

Make snow pictures; draw, paint or paste. 
Make clay cylinders; change into logs 



nth week. 
I2th week. 
13th week. 
14th week. 
15th week. 
i6th week. 
17th week, 
for a hut. 

1 8th week. 



Make clay cubes and half cubes by 
dividing half the cubes into triangular prisms. Repeat 
and let each child make a little house. 

19th week. Draw a plaid shawl on board with col- 



ored chalk 

20th week. 

2ist week. 

22d week. 

23d week. 

24th week, 
pail. 

25th week. 

26th week. 

27th week. 

28th week, 
sphere. 

29th week. 

30th week. 

31st week. 



Paint outlined baby shoe. 

Paint outlined horse. 

Paint or otherwise make a valentine. 

Draw flags with colored chalk. 

Make clay cylinder; change to dinner 

Paint lake or ocean picture. 

Paint outlined house. 

Paint letters as in a Japanese school. 

Clay monument of cube, cylinder, and 

Paint outlined design with gold paint. 
Leaf work in clay. 
Make bird-house poster. 



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37 



32d week. Paint leaf or spray. 

33d week. Paint outlined tulip. 

34th week. Make clay fish, frogs, turtles, etc. 

35th week. Make clay beehive. 

36th week. Paint flowers or leaves. 

37th week. Paint flowers or leaves. 

38th week. Paint flowers or leaves. 



XIX. 
THIRD OCCUPATION PERIOD— PASTING. 

Choose, cut out, 



1st week. Begin Scrap-book, 
and paste picture of a house. 

2d week. Paste pictures of a family. 

Paste pictures of men, women, 



3d week, 
children at work, 

4th week. 

5th week. 

6th week. 

7th week. 

8th week. 

9th week. 
[0th week. 

ith week. 

:2th week. 

3th week. 

:4th week. 

5th week. 

:6th week. 
squares. 

:7th week. 

;8th week. 

:9th week. 
20th week. 
2ist week. 
22d week. 
23d week. 
24th week, 
parquetry. Circ 
25th week. 
26th week. 



and 



Parlor or sitting-room pictures. 

The dining-room. 

The bed-room. 

The kitchen. 

A closet; use old pattern books. 

Outdoor pictures. 

Pictures of school and church. 

Pictures of the summer vacation. 

Christmas work. 

Christmas work. 

Christmas work. 

Christmas work. 

Begin Form Book. Cut out and 



paste 



Oblongs. 

Right isosceles triangles. 
Shoe trapezoids. 
Boat trapezoids. 
Trapeziums. 
Rhombs. 
Hexagons. 

Begin col or- book. Border of red 
les. 

Border of squares. Blue. 
Border of half circles. Yellow. 



38 KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM. 

27th week. Border of half squares, cut vertically. 
Orange. 

28th week. Border of half squares, cut diagonally. 
Green 

29th week. Border of squares and circles. Purple. 

30th week. Design in squares; one chosen color. 

31st week. Design in circles; two colors. 

32d week. Borderof leaves cutfrom green parquetry. 

33d week. Border of crocuses cut from purple 
parquetry. 

34th week. Border of pansies cut from purple and 
yellow parquetry. 

35th week. Daisies made of yellow and white 
parquetry. 

36th week. Free designing with parquetry. 

37th week. Free designing with parquetry. 

38th week. Free designing with parquetry. 



XX 

FOURTH OCCUPATION PERIOD— SEWING. 

A. Short school of circular sewing. 

B. Short school of line sewing. 

C. Borders. 

D. Designs. 

E. Inventions. 

F. Constructive sewing — Bags, dusters, iron-holders. 



etc. 



XXI, 



FIFTH OCCUPATION PERIOD— CONSTRUCTION 

WORK. 

1st week. Little broom; skewer and raveled cloth. 

2d week. Duster; stick; feathers or paper strips; 
strings. 

3d week. Iron-holder; cloth, needles and thread. 

4th week. Little dishes of tea lead. 

5th week. Chain of corn and one-inch straws. 
Soak corn over night 



KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM. 39 

6th week. Little scrap-book of animal pictures. 
(Scrap pictures.) 

7th week. Paper or cloth mask for playing Brownie. 

8th week. Cardboard barn. 

9th week. Cardboard chicken-coop. 

lOth week. Cardboard wagon. Button molds for 
wheels. 

nth week. Church window. Cardboard cut, tissue- 
paper underneath. 

I2th week. Christmas work. 

13th week. Christmas work. 

14th week. Christmas work. 

15th week. Christmas work. 

i6th week. Doll of clothespin and tissue-paper. 

17th week. Cardboard sled. 

i8th week. Cardboard tool-chest. 

19th week. Mat of cloth; raveled edges. 

20th week. Money made of silver paper and card- 
board. 

2 1st week. Reins for playing horse, made of string 

crocheted into a chain stitch with fingers, dyed if desired. 

22d week. Valentines. 

23d week. Soldier cap. 

24th week. Miner's lamp of cardboard. 

25th week. Policeman's star of cardboard and silver 
paper. 

26th week. Cardboard bedstead. 

27th week. Little ABC book. 

28th week. Knight's helmet. 

29th week. Shield. 

30th week. Kite. 

31st week. Flying bird. Paint outlined bird; cut 
out; tie string to it; paint on both sides. 

32d week. Invent wagon. Give children cardboard, 
scissors, paste, string, button-molds and five-inch sticks. 

33d week. Little scrap-book of flower pictures. 

34th week. Boat. 

35th week. Flying butterfly. 

36th week. Pin wheel. 

37th week. Parasol; large paper circle and stick of 
soft wood. 



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KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM. 



38th week, 
handle. 



Fan; large paper circle and stick for 



XXII. 

CHRISTMAS GIFT PERIOD. 

Story of the Christchild. 
Other Christmas stories. 
Blocks; build house, fireplace, toys, church. 
Tablets; lay forms of beauty. Toys. 
Sticks; lay forms of beauty. Toys. 
Rings; lay forms of beauty. Toys. 
Build tiny toys with beads. 
Toys in clay. 

Cut out toys from advertisements and catalogs; paste 
on large paper stocking. 
Lay star in tablets. 
Lay star in sticks. 
Paint outlined stocking. 
Draw Christmas picture. 
Free cutting. 



XXIII. 
CHRISTMAS OCCUPATIONS. 



PRESENTS. 



I. 


Court-plaster case. 


I. 


2. 


Book-mark. 


2. 


3. 


Pin-tray. 


3- 


4. 


Calendar. 


4. 


5- 


Blotter. 


5- 


6. 


Match-scratcher. 


6. 


7- 


Needle-book. 


7- 


8. 


Picture-frame. 


8. 


9. 


Baby's rattle. 


9- 


10. 


Reins. 


10. 


II. 


Wall-pocket. 


II. 


12. 


Sachet-packet. 


12. 


13- 


Christmas picture. 




14. 


Stamp-case. 




15' 


Mat. 





TREE TRIMMINGS. 

Paper bird-cages. 

Cornucopias. 

Folded beauty forms. 

Chains. 

Cotton snowballs. 

Popcorn. 

Nests and eggs. 

Gold-painted egg-shells. 

Gold-painted nuts. 

Paper baskets. 

Paper flowers. 

Brownies. 



KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM. 41 

16. Shaving-balL 

17. Receipt-book. 

18. Scrap-book. 

XXIV. 
THANKSGIVING CELEBRATION. 

Before school — Make paper collars, cuffs, kerchiefs, 
and caps for a procession of the pilgrims. Bring offering 
of fruit or vegetables, to be given away. 

To 9:30 — Program of Harvest and Thanksgiving songs. 
Thanksgiving story. 

To 9:45 — Rehearse the procession of the pilgrims. 
Let boys carry guns and girls their dolls, appropriately 
dressed. 

To 10:15 — Work on a Thanksgiving souvenir. 

To 10:45 — Procession of the pilgrims through halls 
and other rooms. 

To 11:15 — Finish work. 

DISMISSAL. 

XXV. 
CHRISTMAS PARTY. 

To 9 o'clock — General Festivity. 

To 9:30 — Program of songs and verses, not Christmas 
songs. 

To 9:45 — March. 

To 10:10 — Selected table work. 

To 10:45 — Selected Games. 

To II — Darken the room; light tree; sing the 
Christmas songs while the candles burn. Distribute gifts. 

This arrangement of time was made because many 
mothers find it impossible to come to the party before the 
middle of the morning. Those who are able to come with, 
or soon after, the children, are well entertained by the 
opportunity given them to hear the songs the children 
have been learning since September, to see them march 
and play, and to watch them work. On many occasions 
we have found it best to have our celebration in the after- 
noon, using the following order of exercises: 



42 KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM. 

1. Program of Selected Songs. 

2. March. 

3. The Story of Mrs. Santa Claus. 

4. Darken room; light tree; sing the Christmas 
Songs; put out lights. 

5. Games and dancing. 

6. Distribute gifts. 



XXVI. 
DOLL PARTY. 

To 9 oclock — Play with dolls and toys. Boys are 
requested to bring vehicles, musical instruments, and mili- 
tary or other trappings. 

To 9:30 — Choose songs. A doll story. 

To 9:45 — Rehearse Grand March. Girls drill with 
dolls to orders, dance, walk, rock, jump, carry on 
shoulders, etc. Boys furnish music. 

To 10:15 — Gift Period. Doll furniture with blocks. 

To 10:45 — Grand March through halls and rooms in 
the following order: i. Band; 2. Dolls in arms; 3. Dolls 
in carriages; 4. Boys with vehicles; 5. Boys with guns, 
etc.; 6. Children with flags. 

To 11:15 — Tea party. 



XXVII. 

LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY. 

To 9 o'clock — Pictures of Lincoln. Visit other rooms 
to see what older children are doing by way of celebra- 
tion. 

To 9:30 — Story of Lincoln; choruses and music of 
patriotic songs; children supplied with flags; drill with 
flags. 

To 9:45 — Military March. 

To 10:15 — Sew picture frame for a picture of Lincoln. 

To 10:45 — Choose games. 

To 11:15 — Finish work. 



KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM. 43 

XXVIII. 
WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY. 

To 9 o'clock — Pictures of Washington. Play with 
musical instruments and military trappings brought by 
children. 

To 9:30 — Story of Washington; patriotic songs; 
flag drill. 

To 9:45 — Military march. 

To 10:15 — Gift period. Build Washington monument 
in blocks. 

To 10:45 — Grand march through other rooms and 
halls. 

To 11:15 — Frame picture of Washington or make 
badge. 

XXIX. 

FROEBEL'S BIRTHDAY. 

SUGGESTIONS FOR CELEBRATION. 

1. Serenade to parents or neighbors. 

2. Sing in hospital or for invalid. 

3. Give concert to first grade. 

4. Visit some other kindergarten. 

5. Set out all the material and let children choose 
their own work. 

6. Have "A Mothers' Day." 

7. Have "A Little Brothers' and Sisters' Day." 

8. Have "Dandelion Day." Children make wreaths 
and chains of dandelions and then march in procession, 
carrying green boughs and singing. 

9. Have a"Pinwheel Day." Children all make pin- 
wheels, then march in procession out of doors, carrying 
and manipulating pinwheels according to order. Free 
play afterward. 

10. Visit schoolrooms. 

XXX. 
CHILDREN'S BIRTHDAYS. 
To 9 o'clock — Set little table for birthday cake in 
center of circle; make birthday crown; plan songs and 
games with the birthday child. 



44 



KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM. 



To 9:30 — Routine work. as necessary. Da'rken room 
and light candles; sing songs chosen; play Brownies; 
improvise Mother Goose party by dramatizing verses. 

To 9:45 — Birthday child leads or selects march ; let 
children dance around him. 

To 10:15 — Birthday child chooses and leads work. 

To 10:45 — Eat cake; have dancing party. 

To 11:15— 



1. Color pictures. 6. 

2. Make chains. 7. 

3. Make crowns. 8. 

4. Make scrap-books. 9. 

5. Blow bubbles lOt 



Dress penny dolls. 
Visit child's home. 
Have flower procession. 
Have tea party. 
Have doll picnic. 



XXXI. 



5th week. 
6th week. 
i8th week. 
19th week, 
professionals. 
20th week. 
2ist week. 
26th week. 
27th week. 
34th week. 



EXCURSIONS. 

To gather autumn treasures. 

To see pet or wild animals. 

To see a carpenter at work. 

To see weaving done by amateurs 

To see cobbler at work. 
To see blacksmith at work. 
To see fire department. 
To visit school. 
To see a frog pond. 



or 



XXXII, 



7th week, 
iith week. 
i6th week. 
23d week. 
24th week. 
29th week. 



PROCESSIONS. 

Brownies. 
Pilgrims. 
Dolls and toys. 
Washington parade. 
Miners' parade. 
Knights' parade. 



KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM. 



45 



XXXIII. 

EMERGENCY PROGRAM 

An emergency often arises in the kindergarten, neces- 
sitating a change of plan or the leaving of a group of 
children to work by themselves. On such occasions we 
have used the following suggestions with good results: 
I- Sand. 

2. Blackboard drawing. 

3. Clay. 

4. Hailman beads. 

5. Glass beads. 

6. Sixth gift. 

7. Borrow readers, and let children look at pictures. 

8. Sort sticks. 

9. Sort rings. 

10. Sort colors. 

11. Free cutting. 

12. Scissors, paste, paper; free. 

13. Paper, paints; free. 

14. Pricking. 

15. Chains. 

16. Copy parquetry designs. 



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